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Closer, But No Cigar : Intergenerational Mobility Across Caste Groups in India
2018
groups (Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST)) in India with the intergenerational mobility of men outside these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921923
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The Poverty Impacts of the Doha Round in Cameroon : The Role of Tax Policy
Emini, Christian Arnault; Cockburn, John; Decaluwe, Bernard - 2005
The aim of this paper is to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon. During the recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon has enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty with the headcount index falling from 53.3 percent of inhabitants in 1996 to 40.2...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062992
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Equity, Welfare, and the Setting of Trade Policy in General Equilibrium
Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2005
We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components and emphasizing Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these inequality adjusted social welfare functions in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061963
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Earnings Mobility and Measurement Error : A Pseudo-Panel Approach
McKenzie, David J.; Antman, Francisca - 2005
The degree of mobility in incomes is often seen as an important measure of the equality of opportunity in a society and of the flexibility and freedom of its labor market. But estimation of mobility using panel data is biased by the presence of measurement error and non-random attrition from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061842
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Looking Back on Two Decades of Poverty and Well-Being in India
Narayan, Ambar - 2017
This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since … rising) share of the population faces significant risk of slipping back into poverty. India's poor are increasingly … concentrated in low-income states with historically lower rates of economic progress. Even as India has reduced poverty faster than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969582
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Welfare Dynamics Measurement : Two Definitions of a Vulnerability Line and Their Empirical Application
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2017
Living Standards Survey) for the period 2004-2008 and cross-sectional data from India (National Sample Survey) for the period … 2004-2009. The estimation results indicate that in Vietnam and India during this time period, the population living in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973063
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Non-Farm Diversification, Poverty, Economic Mobility and Income Inequality : a Case Study in Village India
Lanjouw, Peter F. (contributor); Murgai, Rinku (contributor) - 2017
This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the … mobility among the poorest segments of rural society. Efforts by the government of India to accelerate the process of … transformation currently underway in rural India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974389
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Gender, Geography and Generations : Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Post-Reform India
Emran, M. Shahe - 2017
India experienced sustained economic growth for more than two decades following the economic liberalization in 1991 … paper provides evidence on economic mobility in post-reform India by focusing on the educational attainment of children. It … evidence shows that family background plays a strong role; the estimated sibling correlation in India in 2006 is higher than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975257
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Tracking Poverty Over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data
Stifel, David C. - 2014
Following the endorsement of the Millennium Development Goals, there is an increasing demand for methods to track poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of regular, comparable data on household consumption. The minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752460
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Distributional Effects of Crises : The Financial Channel
Halac, Marina C. - 2011
Financial crises affect income distribution via different channels. This paper argues that there is an important channel overlooked by the literature, namely the financial channel. We study how this channel operates by analyzing data from several Latin American countries, including Argentina,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012714837